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In a recent interview with the
Sunday Times Magazine
, the 70-year-old didn't hold back in providing a plethora of highly amusing quotes on the big industry-lead topics of the year so far, while promoting her latest line of accessories, which are made from recycled rubbish in Kenya.

"I think she's got a problem with eye make-up!" she declares about the Duchess of Cambridge. "The sharp line around her eyes make her look hard. Either she should be smudgy or wear none." Meanwhile Kate's sense of style gets the following reaction: "Let me put it this way. I t seems to me, that her image is "ordinary woman". Therefore, high street shopper. And I just think she should be an extraordinary woman, wherever she gets her clothes from."

Model Kate Moss, who received towels from Westwood as a wedding gift - "we all send towels, don't we?" she proffers - "wears too much vintage", but admits that her wedding reception was "the best party we've ever been to."

Disgraced ex-Dior designer John Galliano fares better, even if the compliment is a back-handed one. At Moss's wedding she thought that "He looked very well. He didn't look drawn or haggard any more."

But Westwood does lift the lid on her own private life, speaking for the first time about how she considered straying from ex-husband Malcolm McLaren, who died last year.

"I can say this because he's [McLaren] dead, but I had an incredible experience when I was with Malcom. You could have cut the electricity with a knife. I didn't do anything about it, but, he was gorgeous."

If she ever tires of fashion, perhaps Dame Viv could consider a sideline as an agony aunt?